Rewind to old app

Not being able to select text is rubbish - not only for quoting a small amount of a long post, but also for being able to look up words/names easily.

bookmarks seem to be a law unto themselves, and paragraphs aren’t capitalising the first letter <—-

the old app wasn’t great, but it was better than this mess. I’m now finding I’m reluctant to open Mumsnet, which is good for my productivity I suppose!

Why did they make it so blindingly white? Weird decision. I prefer having eyeballs personally.

Totally agree
I can’t get on with it at all

Another one having issues with bookmarks - they're not working at all. I've just had to wade through nearly 300 posts on a thread to find where I'd got to.

I also HATE the white background, and the fact that I can no longer choose which posts are in which colour. It's awful!

@mumsnetis there a way to remove threads that have been deleted from your watchlist? It just gives me an error message. Thanks

On the whole, it’s ok. But…I need to get the background changed and i really want to change the colours.

Can you put notifications back on like this so I can actually find peoples replies and tags without my phone pinging constantly

This new app is beyond horrible. It’s as though a 22-year-old boy were deliberately trying to troll us by removing the most desirable parts of the old app.

I have bookmarked a post by the OP. On the old Mumsnet app if selected OPs post only I could see which OP post I had bookmarked but on the new one I can’t see it. So I have to look at the date and time of the bookmark and then select see the OP’s posts and work it out from there.

Yes the white background is awful. At least I can filter on the OP responses now though.

The amount of advertising is annoying, and very in your face.

The new app is awful 😞

All of the above. It’s horrible

How the hell do I get rid of the big m notification at the very top of my phone screen next to my WiFi symbol.

The old app was extremely basic so I was excited when we were finally getting a new one. I’ve only been on the new app a short while but what’s annoying me most is when I see a post on your Facebook page, I normally click on it and if interested copy the thread title into the app (because it opens in the Facebook window and not logged in or able to see OPs posts only - another little bit of bullshittery) but the new app when you search only brings up comments in the thread so if I click into a thread with many comments already I am unable to get to the top or the bottom, I’m just half way through and missing a lot of relevance. It also wouldn’t show OPs posts due to “an error” despite multiple tries. It was the birthday cake thread and I had to go to web based browsing on safari, log in and then see ops post which is really shit considering the money you’ve likely invested in this app.

Yes this is really bugging me! I’ve clicked the button because I obviously want to change it from what I have now. Why would I need to click a second time?

I do like some of the new functionality, not really fussed about voting, guess editing may be handy, but I have the same issues as have been repeated on every thread about this so far.

Main issue - the glaring white background and big writing. Thanks to a helpful poster on another thread I have been able to use the per-app function in iPhone accessibility settings to change only this app to black/orange/green and a sensible text size. But it’s ridiculous that a newly designed and tested app needs this level of manual correction to be useable. It also means I can’t see emojis or images properly. Or ads, not that I care - but mumsnet’s advertisers might.

The flip extra step is extremely clunky and leaving the OP before new comments awkward.

Not being able to c&p sections to reply to means long quotes with lack of clarity about what part is being replied to.

hoping for an update soon.

I keep opening the app, going on the one thread I regularly post on, remembering how rubbish the app is and going straight off which is great for my screen time but probably the opposite to what MN want.
As everyone else has said the flip asking you which order to sort is pointless, of course I want to change it to newest first, the OP still being at the top is also annoying when it’s lengthy e.g. a thread like the premium bonds thread which has tonnes of info in the OP.

Active being in the top left when on a thread and also on the active page clicking active doesn’t take you back to the top / you can’t just drag down the refresh.

no capitalisation when you start a new paragraph.

Not being able to swipe to bookmark / watch is really irritating.

Probably plenty more things but as I’m barely using it I wouldn’t know..

Bookmarking function isn’t working correctly. You still see the OP and some posts before the bookmarked one.

Agree on the futility of adding an extra step to flip the thread, will add that you can no longer swipe a post to bookmark, report etc which is such a basic feature - again you have to lift your thumb or finger to tap the dots and then select the function you want.

New app looks old, is clunky, unintuitive, and the white background is jarring.

Even writing this post is a pain because when you press return after a full stop to create a new paragraph, it doesn’t recognise it and doesn’t capitalise the first letter 🙄

Come on MNHQ, you can do way better than this.

Hope this helps.

You can’t refresh the “active” list without scrolling all the way to the top.

You can’t highlight and copy bits of text from a post, to then put in your own in bold. This is annoying because it means you have to quote an entire post, and if it’s long and you just want to respond to one specific point, it’s not as clear what’s being responded to.

If you hit enter when writing a post, the start of your sentence is no longer automatically capitalised.

I can’t understand the logic behind any of those changes.

There is no limit to the active threads list like there used to be - this is annoying but at least I can understand MN’s logic (to encourage more scrolling) even if I don’t like it.

When going into a bookmarked thread, it often takes me 5-10 posts either side of where I have actually bookmarked. There’s no point in a bookmark feature that doesn’t work.

When you filter to show all OP’s comments, it no longer tells you at the top how many there are.

When you have too much wine and you design an app. Who thought such glaringly white background is a good thing? Meh.

This is a link for older versions

https://apkpure.com/mumsnet-talk-forum-for-parents/com.mumsnet.talk/amp

100% agree with this, the ‘new’ version feels like a complete downgrade.

I hope they do a poll and allow us to revert back to the old version. I really hate this one so far.